Collection relating to the service of 181 Private Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse

Dressing station, Monash Gully, Gallipoli. One of a group of seven photographs sent by 181 Private (Pte) Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse, Gallipoli, to his friend 8/508 William Woods, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, in the mid-late 1920's. Pte McCristal and Woods were likely to have met while in hospital at Gallipoli recovering from wounds. Caption on back, written by Pte McCristal, reads: "At the dressing station in Monash Gully, foot of Popes Hill. Wounded, dying and dead on the morning of the battle August 7th 1915, just after Sun Rise. A nice shambles this was, there were some awful sights around me here with pitiful groans and horrible wounds. I am lying on the stretcher marked T.McC at the foot of the chap with right arm in sling one of my troop mates named Archie McLean." Pte McCristal was repatriated after he was wounded and became a colourful and controversial figure in the mid-twentieth century NSW labour movement.